Don't Know Which Surgeon to Pick for Sever Balding - London, GB

I'm in the US, so can't help you much with your selection of a doctor over the pond. But my two cents worth is this. First, get to the gym. Short and bald are hard to change, but fitness you can control. And it really helps with depression. Also, if you do get a HT, you have to lay of exercise for a while. So its good to go in fit as possible. Next, I would imagine most doctors would agree that rogaine and propecia would really help you out, especially at your age and early stage of hair loss. If you ever are worried about side effects, try taking the propecia only 2-3 times a week. Of course, talk to your Dr.
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If I was you, I'd look at going to Turkey, it's a fraction of the cost compared to London. There's loads of reviews on this site of good surgeons in turkey. I recently went to new age clinic where the Service was excellent.

You should seriously consider going to Istanbul for micro FUE like I did in February this year. It cost total £1,800 instead of the cost £15k in UK or US. Check out my progress and that of Gmang (Australia) and DerekLucan (Ireland) who also went to the same clinic I did. I started with exactly the same level of hair loss as you (see my pre-op Jan 2016 pics). I am now very happy and confident.

Thanks everyone, I honestly didn't expect anyone to reply with any feed back so thank you all!! I have been to my first consultation on Thursday and I didn't get the feeling that ziering place was the place for me, no 1 a guy who had an hour later appointment was taken for his consultation before me simply because he finished his questionnaire 3minutes before me. My appointment was at 12:30 and I arrived 15 minutes early and handed my questionnaire 8minutes early. I asked the secretary why he got to go first when his appointment was at 1:30 and got a cold response of "well he finished his questionnaire first" don't know about you guys but I've never been to any place even at publicly funded healthcare places where finishing a questionnaire takes precedence over actual appointment time. So it really didn't start off well, then I saw the consultant who was what I could only describe as sleazy, fed me a tonne of BS and expected me to lap it up but I cowardly nodded all the while knowing this place is just complete crap. They stop charging the second you go over 3750 grafts. What kind of place would give you free grafts for extra when their whole sales pitch is cheezy and used car salesman like. So onto next one, hope it goes well. Fingers crossed. I have looked st the abroad option but I'm sorry to say I just find it hard to trust doctors abroad. For something this important to me I would pay extra. After having a failed gyneacomastia operation I just can't take the risk. It hurt my confidence too much. As for the exercise I am still limited because of my bariatric surgery which also apparently speeds up hair loss so i gota take that plunge on the propercia even though it scares me to death. I've got my Fitbit blaze on all times so I try and do my steps and climb my stairs goal and exercise goals every day. But I have to stay away from anything to straining as hernias are quite likely and that's the last thing anyone needs. Hairflick that price is literally mind blowing. How many grafts did you have done? I'm looking to get as close to 8,000 as I can. From all my google searches it always seems to look like 8,000 seems to be the number that covers everything. That leaves no gaps or thinning areas, which is one of my worst fears. I'll sit on that operation table for 48hours if I have to but I don't want to end up with thinning areas 6months down the line and get hooked on going back to the hair surgeons for top ups every other year.thats not even really an option tbh. I'm going to sub let me flat and move back home just to cover the costs for this operation. I am super grateful to my mum for letting me move back coz the bank was giving me a ridiculous 8.8apr even though the offer specifically said 3.3%. Anyways I have to stay positive and count my lucky stars. Thanks so much again for the replies guys. Means a lot!!

Thanks again guys, PW1631 I might have to look into what you suggested as I've just come back from a consultation and apparently my donor hair isn't strong enough at the moment which was a real blow. But I do trust Dr. Ball so I am most likely going to follow his medication option for a year to see if the donor hair yield increases but if it does I will stick with him as he's been nothing but accommodating and I know how much an office costs to rent on Harley street so I know that it's not like couldn't use the money but he stayed true to his beliefs and customer satisfaction which means the world to me. Like you've mentioned before the other places are willing to take the clothes off my back if it meant a sale. Luckily I can sublet my flat and I would be able to pay back the procedure in under two years so money wise I am very lucky. I am just surprised that my donor hair is so bad to be honest. But I will try and relax and take the medication route first. He suggested some method where they take some blood and take out the platelets which inhibit hair growth and then re-injected it, I might have to do some research on this but it sounds very promising and quite a smart idea. As I have ruled out propecia for hormonal reasons. I just have one more place to visit which the Harley street hair clinic which was recommended by spex (apparently very respected specialist) but I think I need to slow down a little bit, take a breath and maybe come to the realisation that I may not be able to get this done ASAP.. which sucks if I'm completely honest but Dr. Ball has really helped me put things into perspective. The one company I would advise people to stay way clear from is Ziering though, boy did that guy want my money.. and he didn't even run any real tests.. at least with Dr. Ball he had one of those stereoscopic (I think that's what they're called) cameras linked to a laptop and showed me how my donor hair barely has more than 1/2 follicle per graft which really wouldn't fill out my massive balding. Thanks again for all the advise guys and if you've heard of any medications that actually work (non hormonal) or anything else that would help me progress in this epic journey I'd really appreciate it. Thanks again for everything. I really didn't expect such help. I feel blessed, thank you all.